Trite, the Suffering Writer Man

[Galatea] It's finally time to publish this project! 𝗠𝘆 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗥𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗖𝘂𝗽 (my rom-com entry for the Honeyfeed Novelous contest) is now available to read! I'll publish a new chapter every day. Cover art by @Blumenkranz00 Link below ⬇️

who the fuck writes a for loop like that

e-ink is so good for being able to enjoy the sun without sacrificing your eyes

honeyfeed.fm/novels/30264 Also, can we just talk about how adorably sexy Mana is on the cover? My little girl failure is just perfect☺️ L did an amazing job on this!

[Galatea] It's finally time to publish this project! 𝗠𝘆 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗥𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗖𝘂𝗽 (my rom-com entry for the Honeyfeed Novelous contest) is now available to read! I'll publish a new chapter every day. Cover art by @Blumenkranz00 Link below ⬇️

The names of kings have been worn away by the sands of time. Gods once feared are forgotten. Monuments to the immortality of civilizations now shattered into the cobblestones of another. But one man shall survive forever because he was a really, really shitty copper merchant.

made Ea Nasir in tomodachi life

@pikatl Good egg.

drew an egg

I'm 90% convinced this is the reason I have terrible migraines and we'll only find out in like 20 years.

In before this becomes the new artistic nudity trend with Twitter artists.

Hmm. Okay, yeah. I think I get it now.

@Sharkurin What the actual fuck was that comment. People online are so weird, I swear.

But.. I prefer woman tho?...

@TanukiiAraiguma Nice Rorschach test you got here

I really need to start working more on this..

If you do a blind test with laypeople, they will tend to prefer the AI writing style. It’s only us weirdos with high-brow (read: objectively correct) taste that notice this stuff and learn to despise it. This suggests that the explanation is not some kind of mistake or error. ChatGPT uses negative parallelisms because, somehow, to the majority of its audience, they constitute “good” writing. As somebody who is kind of obsessed with rhetoric, I think the answer is pretty obvious: people process information better when it is strongly contrasted. It is often insufficient to tell people “what something is” if you do not also tell them “what it is not”. You’ll notice I just used Negation like 3 times in the preceding paragraphs and imo it is an incredibly effective technique. Perhaps I’d even go so far as to assert that the fundamental unit of communication is neither the bare assertion nor the atomic truth value, but *difference*. Parallelism is then another One Neat Trick you layer on top of Negation to improve ease of comprehension. With parallel sentence structures you are literally reducing the amount of grammatical/structural information that the person has to process in order to digest your point. It’s a cheat code. Read the writings of any good orator and you’ll see it littered everywhere. And the simplest form of bashing these two techniques together is the Negative Parallelism: it’s not X, it’s Y.

@TanukiiAraiguma That's basically what writing is in general 😆

@TriteWrite Writer is such a strong word.. I prefer the term "I have nightmares and sometimes write them down cause it's funny"

Do we see a pattern here..

everyone who enjoys reading novels should try to write a scene. even a paragraph of a scene. try to get someone in and out of a room. will change how you read forever

I've always assumed my aphantasia was a nerf when it came to writing, but actually, it might be an advantage. I've never described a little movie in my head *because* I don't have a little movie in my head *to* describe.

@JamesAllenMaxey Now to get accepted into those events... *sigh*

This is the ultimate line against AI and algorithms. It's unlikely anyone who takes shortcuts in writing a book will invest the time and effort to handsell. And, in the real world, people are hungry for the kinds of quirky, unique work that gets buried by algorithms.

@TanukiiAraiguma I'm too much of a realist; what can I say? No whimsy on my watch! (btw I'm sharing mine because I just adored this angry little cat 🤣)

@TriteWrite NOOO THE WHIMSY OF PERSONALITY TESTS NOOOO TRITE DONT DO THIS TO MEE

If I kept a tally on everytime these tests call me an overthinker..my poor walls

@TanukiiAraiguma So you're a writer too, I see, I see.

@TriteWrite Very poorly written mini-books I used to write in middle school